{"id":44506,"date":"2024-08-21T08:33:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T08:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=44506"},"modified":"2024-08-21T08:33:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T08:33:41","slug":"tragedy-as-car-crushes-argentine-riding-bicycle-on-abuja-niger-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/21\/tragedy-as-car-crushes-argentine-riding-bicycle-on-abuja-niger-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy As Car crushes Argentine Riding Bicycle On Abuja-Niger Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Argentine, Bettoli Juan Ignacio, has been crushed by a car on the Abuja Niger road in Tungan Usman village near Old Gawu in Abaji Area Council of the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>A witness, identified simply as Ibrahim, said the incident happened last Thursday around 1pm when a Volkswagen Golf with registration number, FST 491 EZ, crashed into the Argentine.<\/p>\n<p>He said the driver, who was conveying passengers from neighbouring Kacha to Dikko in Niger State, lost control and overran the bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>He said the victim was rescued by police operatives from the Yaba Division and taken to the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) where doctors confirmed him dead.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Commissioner of Police (CP), Benneth Igweh, who confirmed the incident, said the corpse had been deposited at UATH.<\/p>\n<p>He said both the vehicle and the bicycle, as well as the deceased\u2019s international passport, identity card and other documents recovered at the scene, were with the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Argentine, Bettoli Juan Ignacio, has been crushed by a car on the Abuja Niger road in Tungan Usman village near Old Gawu in Abaji Area Council of the FCT. A witness, identified simply as Ibrahim, said the incident happened last Thursday around 1pm when a Volkswagen Golf with registration number, FST 491 EZ, crashed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44508,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44506\/revisions\/44508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}